John ColemanA frequent
participant in AEJ meetings, John Coleman died on 5 January 2010. He enlivened
our discussions with an enthusiasm and originality that was wholly unique. Please
see this obituary in The
Daily Telegraph on 29 January 2010.

Colin BicklerAfter a long career
in international journalism including three decades with Reuters, Colin
Bickler died on 12 January 2013. From 1990, he combined teaching at City
University with work on the safety of journalists in dangerous places.

Frank GrayRaconteur, jazz
aficionado, editor, writer and most of all friend to the many people whose
lives he touched, Frank Gray died in hospital on 7 October 2013. For more on
his life, career at the FT, and other writing please see
here.

John GuineryRetired
journalist, lobby correspondent and member of the AEJ, John Guinery, died on
24 February 2014.

Dr Andrew
MangoFormer BBC World Service editor and executive, and noted interpreter of
Turkish affairs, Andrew Mango died at home in Barnes on 7 July 2014.
For more please
see here and the following articles - Jonathan Fryer's obituary in The Guardian,
6 August 2014, and Firdevs Robinson's appreciation of Andrew's scholarship and life
at Firdevs
Talks Turkey

Don Hatwell
Former secretary of the AEJ British section and London editor of
the Bristol Evening Post, Don Hatwell died at his home in Woodford on 29 July
2014 at the age of 88. For more please see
here.

Roger Morgan
A frequent participant in AEJ events down the years, Roger Morgan died
on 3 March 2015 at the age of 82. A lifelong enthusiast for the cause of
European unity, he taught international relations at several British
universities as well as at Harvard, Bonn and the European University
Institute in Florence, and also held research posts at Chatham House and the
Policy Studies Institute. He displayed enormous courage in coping with the
effects of polio, which he contracted at the age of 14 and withdrew to a
nursing home for the last years of his life.

Dennis
Kiley

1933-2018

Raymond Whitaker writes:

Announcing his father’s death on 29 June 2018, the journalist
Sam Kiley said Dennis had enjoyed a “full and outrageous life”. Indeed – just
how outrageous is clear from Dennis’s privately published autobiography, The Guns of the White Father, which
relates with relish his numerous careers, loves and adventures, extracting
the blackest of humour from the direst of circumstances.

Born near Cape Town in 1933, Dennis soon showed the
independence of spirit that later rendered him immune from the collective
madness, called apartheid, that infected his fellow South African whites.
Though an English speaker, he insisted on being educated in Afrikaans. This
stood him in good stead as he evaded the political and moral restrictions of
Afrikaner nationalism, which he described as “looming over the land, grim,
joyless, interfering, righteous, the great Calvinist monster”.

A picaresque progress around South Africa, including stints
as a travelling salesman and gold miner, as well as a couple of marriages,
eventually took Dennis into journalism. Working for the Golden City Post, a paper aimed at all the “non-white”
communities – black, Asian and mixed-race “Coloured” – enabled him to move
between worlds in a country that was becoming increasingly segregated.

“A tabloid weekly paper is a lively place,” Dennis wrote.
“We covered mass murderers, sexual deviants, blackmailers, kidnappers and
sometimes a combination.” Despite growing government oppression, he mixed
with (and chose his lovers from) fellow free-thinkers of all races, from jazz
musicians and gangsters to those fighting apartheid, openly or clandestinely.
He met Chief Albert Luthuli, one of the founders of the ANC, which now rules
South Africa. The chief was under house arrest in rural Zululand, so Dennis
visited him every week to take down his thoughts for a weekly column.

Later he recalled: “We wrote: ‘We do not want to drive you
back into the sea where you came from, and we do not want to marry your
sisters. All we ask for ourselves is a fair share in the land of our birth.’
That was in the citation when he won the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Dennis was doing an increasing amount of work for foreign
newspapers and broadcasters in Britain, Canada and the US. This got him into
trouble when he reported for a London newspaper on the mistreatment of black
prisoners in the notorious Modder B jail. The white government had imposed a
near-total ban on coverage of such matters, and he was the first person
convicted under the newly-passed Prisons Act. The result was to make it
virtually impossible to operate as a journalist in South Africa, and he took
up the invitation to become the understudy to his best friend, television
journalist George Clay, in Nairobi.

“I had never enjoyed being anywhere as much as I enjoyed
living in Kenya,” Dennis wrote later. It was a country that “lifted me up and
stared into my face”. It was where he met and married Martha Worthington, an
expert in animal behaviour, and where Sam was born. It was also from Nairobi
that he embarked on the most dangerous and exciting episode of his life –
covering the bloodshed in Congo, which became independent in 1960 and was
almost immediately plunged into civil war, with the United Nations sending in
troops to prevent the mineral-rich province of Katanga seceding.

The war, which attracted riff-raff from every continent to
fight as mercenaries, more than satisfied Dennis’s taste for the eccentric
and the bizarre, furnishing him with a lifetime of anecdotes. There was, for
example, the English head doctor at a rural hospital who turned out to have
no medical qualifications at all, while the title for his book came from a
priest of the White Fathers order, who shot crocodiles to earn money for his
mission.

At times it seemed that Dennis was reporting on the Congo
disaster for most of the English-speaking world, constantly risking his life
but earning more than enough to repay his friend George, who had helped to
set him up with a loan, a Land Rover and TV equipment. Martha, as fearless as
he was, joined him in Katanga. But their appetite for adventure was abruptly
stilled when George was killed by a stray bullet in the conflict. Dennis even
gave up journalism for a time, preferring to sell cars in Nairobi. When
journalism eventually reclaimed him, it was in a different country and a
different style.

Arriving in Britain with his family (though his marriage
to Martha did not last), Dennis the hell-for-leather reporter became Dennis
the journalistic entrepreneur. At the Financial
Times he headed the syndication department, selling the newspaper’s copy
to governments, businesses and other news outlets around the world, an
enterprise in which I served for some years as his deputy. Later he ran an
expanding and profitable newsletters empire under the FT name, hiring many
people who went on to prominence in the profession.
Dennis spent his final decades with Yuriko Akishima, a cultural correspondent
whom he claimed to have persuaded in the nick of time not to return to Japan,
but to marry him instead, in the process adding two more to his collection of
sons. This, and his move into management, might have made it appear that his
maverick spirit had been tamed, but not so. When it emerged that an employee
had been embezzling funds, for example, the FT management’s instinct was to
hush the matter up. Dennis insisted on going to the police, however, and had
the satisfaction of seeing the culprit jailed for two years.

Post-retirement, Dennis somehow succeeded in securing an
allotment in the middle of Hampstead, surrounded by some of the most
expensive property on earth. Nearby was his favourite pub, the Holly Bush,
where family, friends and former colleagues gathered in their brightest clothing
on 13 July to remember him. It was the best way to celebrate probably the
most convivial man we are ever likely to meet.

AEJ events director David Lennon writes:

Dennis made a big impression on everyone who met him and I
certainly remember the best piece of management advice ever, which I received
from Dennis when I took over from him in FT Syndication:

"Tell your staff that any promises or commitments you
make in the pub after 8 pm regarding their salaries, promotions or other
benefits are non-binding."

For me this encapsulates the practical nature of Dennis. He was
always direct to the point, except when retelling one of his dramatic African
adventures. Years later I also remember his questions at the Association of
European Journalists luncheons where he would like to preface his questions
to our guest speaker with a pertinent anecdote or two to disguise the sharp
edge of his question. He was also a terrific raconteur at the pub post-mortem
which followed the lunches in those days. It was an honour and a privilege to
have worked with him.

Roger Broad

1931-2017

It is with enormous sadness that the AEJ UK learnt of the
death of Roger Broad last Aug. 17 2017 from complications following heart
surgery. Roger was a founder member of the British section of the AEJ in 1968
while he was the European Commission's press officer in London. He was
believed to have been the oldest surviving active member of the AEJ UK and a
witty, wise, loyal and active member of the section who will be hugely missed
by all who knew him as a wonderful colleague and friend. Please see this story of his career
from former professional colleague Michael Berendt. Former AEJ UK
secretary Kevin d’Arcy notes that Roger was "one of our nicest, most
positive and valuable members" who "reappeared soon after
I became the section secretary. This was extremely lucky for us, as the
contacts he had developed in Brussels, Strasbourg and Whitehall proved
essential to raising support for the AEJ generally, but especially for
the annual congress which I had offered to organise in London in 1992.
Luckily, we managed to form an organising committee with a impressive
flex of muscle, including Roger, the younger Paul Hodgson (then our
chairman) and Gerry Mansell, former director of the BBC World Service.
Roger, thank goodness, agreed to become our section’s first treasurer,
thus removing the care of cash away from my function of spending it.
Roger said afterwards that this was probably not only the biggest, but
also the first ever congress not to show a loss… Which showed just how
valuable he was."

For a look at Roger’s own remembrances of the birth of the AEJ
UK please see here. In 2016 he
released his latest book "Volunteers and Pressed Men", an account
of how Britain raised its forces in the 20th century's two world
wars, an account that questioned the extent to which Britain really
"stood alone" - given the millions of soldiers throughout the
British Empire and Commonwealth who fought both voluntarily and under
conscription. For more details see here. And
for his own advice on how
to get published here.

Celia Hampton

1944-2016

David Lennon writes:

Celia Hampton, our stalwart
anchor in the AEJ UK Section for so many
years, died on May 17 after a protracted battle with the pulmonary illness
which had dogged so much of her life in recent years. Her funeral took place in London on May 31.

Celia was forthright and
scrupulously honest both as a journalist and as a most valuable member of the
AEJ. She wrote widely on competition, financial and legal issues for many
publications over a long and distinguished journalistic career.

Celia has been a very dear
friend and colleague to many of us for a long time. She was always modest
about her achievements but was extremely knowledgeable about legal matters,
and continued to write regularly for Competition Law Insight despite her
increasing frailty and ill health.

She did an enormous amount
for the AEJ, as the UK Section’s Secretary and Treasurer for many years, and
the founding, indefatigable editor of the Section’s website.

Whenever the Section needed
someone to hold the fort, it was Celia who agreed to help. In 1999 Celia
stepped in to be Acting Chairman and in 2001 agreed to be Treasurer for
several years. She took on the key role of Secretary between 2006 and 2010,
when she handed that baton over to Margaret Hughes.

It was also in 2001 that
she devised and launched the section’s own website www.aej-uk.org and she continued to develop
and look after our website for the next 15 years, determinedly posting
material with wonderful efficiency and consciensciousness right to the end.

She will be hugely missed
by all her friends. William Horsley, Chairman of
the Section, says that Celia combined her unique wry humour with great
resourcefulness and moral integrity which won her many friends and admirers.
She also had a great many friends around Europe in other AEJ sections, and helped
the association to navigate through every squall that it has confronted,
including the tortuous process of revising the international AEJ’s Statutes
several years ago.

Celia's family have selected the following charities for donations:
- British Lung Foundation
- MS Society
- Liberty the National Council for Civil Liberties

Peter Kramer, former AEJ
Secretary General (2004-12), writes from Brussels:Celia will be hugely missed by me and others who became
firm friends with her through her splendid work in and for the international
AEJ, as well as for the UK Section. She and I first met in 2004 at the AEJ
International General Assembly in Kosice, Hungary. That meeting was the first
after a crisis in the AEJ due to serious organisational strains. A new board
was elected, in which Celia became Vice President and I
became the new Secretary General.
’Kosice’ was the beginning of the resurgence of the AEJ, on which she
and I worked for many years together with other colleagues. Celia’s strength, steely intellect and keen legal mind played
a crucial role. After she stood down as Vice President in 2008, she stayed
active as the invaluable legal advisor to the AEJ. Despite her
inability to travel because of her failing health, the communication and
cooperation was always seamless. In order to make the AEJ a more modern and
incisive organisation it was decided to make significant changes to the
structure and statutes of the association. Celia became
a tower of strength, shaping, guiding and challenging to meet our agreed
goals, and in the end we overcame all the hurdles. During this process she
was straightforward, very calm under pressure, and had a wonderful sense
of humour. Finally, at the AEJ General Assembly in Brussels in November 2013,
the new statutes were approved. Celia and I met a few months later for a celebratory lunch
together in London. We talked about putting the world (and the AEJ!) to
rights. This turned out to be the last time we met personally.
I will always remember Celia as a good friend, a great
colleague and altogether a rather wonderful person.

Celia’s son Adam Hampton provided
this resuméof his mother’s career: At about the age of 18 she studied for the bar and by the end of the
1960s she became a barrister.

She never took to being a
barrister like her ex-husband, Paul, did and started doing other jobs. These
ranged from marking surveyors' exams to editing the solicitor's journal and
the journal for the Legal Executives.

In the 1970s she met and
started working for Adolf “Andy” Hermann, the FT legal editor, as well as
editing the International Comparative Law quarterly and a Business Law
newsletter for the British Institute of Comparative Law.

Through the 1980s she
continued working for the British Institute and also started editing an FT
newsletter called the Business Law Brief which turned into Business Law
Europe in the early 1990s.

Also in the early 1990s
when the Berlin wall came down she launched a companion newsletter called the
Eastern Europe Business Law Brief.

She was one of the first
editors to both edit and typeset her publications for FT Newsletters and her
innovation meant she was able to charge for both jobs when she started using
a computer to do the typesetting. Amongst her peers this was very rare.

When FT newsletters was
closed down by Pearson in the late 1990s she looked into other innovations
and with Peter Thompson tried to bring resources together for those involved
in business law. After this project she teamed up with a database expert and
launched PublicInfo, an innovative way of searching cases and legal resources
without the need to employ enormous teams of people to do the job.

She went back into
journalism and in 2002 she launched and edited Competition Law Insight, a
journal dedicated to Competition Law, and was still contributing articles
this year.

Max Findlay, the Editor of Competition Law Insight (CLI), writes:Celia handed over the editorship to me in June 2005. After that she
regularly contributed the front-page leader for CLI and its electronic
sister, CLI in Brief.
Her last leader – on Google and the problems that the online world poses for
competition law – appeared in the 26 April 2016 edition of CLI in Brief.

I knew Celia for something
like 30 years. At one level, I knew a lot about her. She was clever and could
articulate her views very clearly, using an extremely wide (and sometimes
delightfully archaic) vocabulary. She was a great teacher. When I started
editing CLI and ignorant about many things in the competition law world,
Celia would explain them in readily understandable terms without ever talking
down to me. She was excellent company. And I realise from talking to other
people that she had a wonderful knack of keeping her friends over decades.

When discussing ideas,
concepts or news developments, she was often passionate but always rational.
Certain things, though, really got under her skin. Condescending lawyers and
self-regarding graduates of the older universities were a particular bugbear.
New computers with idiosyncratic features were another, although something in
her rather liked the challenge of conquering them. And then there were the
sympathetic expressions (usually prefaced by the immortal phrase “Gee Whizz”)
of shared annoyance over the minor inconveniences of life.

My strongest memory of
Celia is of drinking coffee with her in the early morning outside a café in
Strasbourg next to the city’s medieval red-stone cathedral. She was dressed
mainly in black with a coloured scarf round her neck, smoking the inevitable
cigarette – a roll-up, from memory – and holding forth in strong but
civilised terms about some iniquity in that morning’s news. There was
something timelessly rive gauche about the whole thing. You just needed a bunch
of bohemian intellectuals to come round the corner and complete the picture.

Friends and colleagues
write:

Former
AEJ Secretary Kevin d’Arcy recalls Celia as one of the world’s
most excellent but also most reticent of journalists.
Her loyalty to her friends, of which I was one, was fierce in its
application. Fellow workers at the FT certainly remember her admiration for
Andy Herman the FT Legal Editor and his similar insistence on precise
accuracy in all matters.
Celia was one of many legal scribes who accepted an invitation to join
members of the AEJ at a lunch with the Lord Chancellor of the day, which was
when she immediately made her mark in asking the most deft but pertinent
questions.From that day on she
seldom missed a meeting. She also became a valuable member of the Association
of British Editors.Many
worthwhile and well-paid positions were advertised over the years for which
she would have been admirably suited, but her overwhelming modesty held her
back.

Kate Clifton, Managing
Editor of Informa Law, publishers of CLI: Celia has never
missed a deadline with us. However, she often forgot to submit her invoices
so that we could actually pay her for her hard work. It’s something that she
and I joked about in the past and I found it amusing as I usually have to
chase people for copy, not invoices. Celia was of the school of thought – and
not many remain – that the content was the most important thing. She wrote
because she loved to, and that really came across in her pieces.